gtk-using apps

[Jeremy Lavergne]

On April 18, 2015 4:47:17 AM EDT, "René J.V. Bertin" <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Friday April 17 2015 18:54:19 David Evans wrote:
>
>>> We have the app portgroup, which is just a shell wrapper to run a
>program in $prefix/bin. Is that still the only available option?
>
>I have been working off and on (more off than on) on a version of the
>old DropScript, exactly with the goal of being able to integrate
>traditional applications with LaunchServices. It works well enough for
>me ATM but needs polishing, and officially a reply from the original
>author to know if and what kind of license we can stick on the code.
>
>For those who are (somehow :)) not aware: LaunchServices does not work
>like its equivalent on MS Windows, at least not the part that most Mac
>users interact with. Double-clicking a document, dragging a document
>onto the app icon do not lead to main being called with argc,argv set
>to reflect the documents concerned. Events ("messages") are used
>instead, and you need to declare a principle class that replies to
>these messages to be able to open the documents. Qt does have some
>infrastructure in place for that, but it clearly isn't automatic. I
>have no idea about GTk in this domain.
>BTW, it is also possible to send regular arguments via LaunchServices
>(e.g. `open -a Foo.app --args arg1 arg2 etc`).
>It's not impossible to write some code that intercepts the LS messages
>that can be injected at the head of main, but it given that it works by
>calling main once more (or doing an exec) it's just as clean to write
>an external wrapper which (re)creates a proper argc,argv structure.
>
>R.

Do you happen to know how ScriptExec (used by gimp-app) compares to DropScript?